topic
State-backed groups and cyber-espionage.
Want to defend against threats like these? Get hands-on cybersecurity training at Skillmate
29 posts, newest first
Vapor Panda, a China state-backed threat group, used ARTEX, an automated AI penetration testing framework, to compromise 140 sensitive...
Skillmate
Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have been using the ARTEX AI-powered penetration testing framework in attacks against high-value...
Skillmate
A 62-year-old defense contractor with top secret clearance pleaded guilty to allowing co-conspirators to use his identity for job...
Skillmate
Threat actors have targeted servers with PHP2Shell vulnerabilities for over a week, successfully compromising a few Palo Alto Networks...
Skillmate
Poryadok, a Russian home goods retailer with 48 stores across 32 cities, faced a cyberattack that led to the closure of some stores and the...
Skillmate
The 'FrostyNeighbor' advanced persistent threat (APT) group conducted a destructive cyber attack in Ukraine, raising concerns about...
Skillmate
A zero-day vulnerability in VMware ESX was exploited by a China-nexus threat actor known as Warp Panda, targeting the U.S. legal sector to...
Skillmate
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Russian and North Korean nationals for allegedly laundering the earnings of illicit IT workers on...
Skillmate
Researchers at Black Lotus Labs uncovered a covert network technique called ‘Silent Train’ used by the China-linked Volt Typhoon group to...
Skillmate
A Belarus-linked hacking group, GhostWriter, launched a destructive cyberattack against a Ukrainian manufacturing company in late May,...
Skillmate
Cybercriminals are using apps falsely claiming to track gas prices, police patrols, and drone strikes to steal personal and financial...
Skillmate
The Lazarus Group, linked to North Korea, has launched Operation FlashHole, targeting at least three South Korean organizations in the...
Skillmate
Zheng Zhao, a 44-year-old Chinese national, was extradited from The Netherlands and arraigned for his role in a money-laundering scheme...
Skillmate
A Chinese national, Zhen Zhao, was extradited to the United States from the Netherlands and arraigned for his role in a $36.9 million...
Skillmate
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm, in collaboration with UAC-0099, executed a destructive attack on a Ukrainian logistics...
Skillmate
After a three-month lull, Prince of Persia, a threat group sponsored by the Iranian government, hosted its command-and-control (C&C) server...
Skillmate
A new bipartisan bill proposes federal guidance to defend AI models against distillation attacks, targeting countries like Russia, China,...
Skillmate
Organizations, particularly public and private sector entities, face increased risks of data exfiltration, surveillance, and potential...
Skillmate
The attack began with a phishing email containing a malicious attachment, allowing UAC-0099 to gain initial access. They later deployed a...
Skillmate
Microsoft researchers identified a China-state aligned threat group, Storm-0940, as the culprit behind an attack on ConnectWise’s Cloud...
Skillmate
North Korean hackers, known as the Lazarus Group, are using a post-quantum cryptographic mechanism called ML-KEM to secure the delivery of...
Skillmate
Two senior U.S. lawmakers, Rep. Jim Himes and Mark Warner, have warned that Russia is attempting to harm the Democratic Party and erode...
Skillmate
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a China-aligned threat cluster known as Bronze Sandcastle, which has been targeting...
Skillmate
Hirundo discovered that a Chinese AI model produced code 19% more likely to be hackable when developing applications for US defense...
Skillmate
A Belarus-aligned hacktivist group, known as Partisan Zmiy or Cyber Partisans, infiltrated a Russian healthcare organization's network for...
Skillmate
A pro-Ukrainian hacking group called Black Spark claimed responsibility for displaying anti-Putin messages on an education assessment...
Skillmate
APT28, a Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor, breached a NATO naval shipbuilder in a targeted cyber-espionage campaign. The...
Skillmate
A nation-state cyber espionage group, Armory Castle, exploited a zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support, impacting a small...
Skillmate